If I remember right this is what I said to him, "At least my c**p Pentax is weather resistant and the lense as well, and it still taking pictures, what about your Canon." I think I stop at this point looked at his camera gave a snigger and said "Theres only 1 camera here thats C**p, and it hasn't got Pentax written on it, maybe you should remember the name when looking for a new one" I then laughed and walked away.
God he was an arse. I cant be doing with my ones better than yours.

Pentax users are all ways the favoured ones.

Yeah I did have a Water risistant lenses, and I think I may have got a picture of him, will have to have a look tomorrow.

I just couldn't help but laugh at him, it must of come across so mean. But guess what I don't give a dam.

Just laughted my self to death, I was out taking pictures of Narberths winter carnival, when the bloke next to me who was useing a Canon, started saying why would you use Pentax their c**p. It was at this point the skys decided to dump their contents all in one swift go. All fine so far, except the poor bloke next to me thought just because I kept shooting pictures it must be ok(well thats what I was guessing.), and wouldn't do any damage to the camera and kept shooting to.
After about 10 minutes the poor sod was curseing as his camera packaged up, This was the point that I pointed out about Pentax weather sealing and walked away laughing.

But being someone who enforces some of these daft and stupid rules day in and day out, I think we are becomeing to much of a nanny state. You take the section 5 public order act, if you say something that I find offensive as a police officer, I can arrest you and give you a £80 fine(and bang you up in a cell over night.). This is one section of uk law that is very easy to abuse.

Dos vedanya

It will contain a readable chip and a scanner sensor, I've already seen what they will look like, and we have already seen what this goverment can do in the past week without telling us what it was really upto, with RBS and £64,000,000,000 that they thought was nothing to do with us.

If you think about how does this link into you ID, it does in more ways than one, I just chose to use a very simple example. It was asked how could this be misused. You think of all the information I could gather on you in the space of a week, just by logging your movements and what you brought, where you went, who you saw. You asked how could the goverment misuse ID cards.
The cards in the UK wont just contain your ID, they will contain your Biometric data, all your NI details, all your medical details e.c.t. e.c.t, that is just the things we know about.
So yes, your privacy can be breached. But as I said this is just an example of how the UK goverment could decide to use there ID cards. A mad and wacky example, but anything is possible.

One way of looking at it Stefan is, lets say for example, this is just an example.
You go out for a walk, with your ID card in your pocket and you want to go to some shops, but to enter these shops you have to swipe your card through a scanner. Now these scanners could be linked into a computer which is logged, you then buy some books, but again to buy these books you have to swipe your ID card. So they now know what you have brought. Do you see where this is going.
Also if that isn't bad enough, they are looking at fitting trackers to all motor cars in the UK that could control your speed, so you can't break the speed limit(this is already under trial.). I wonder what else these trackers could do. Anyone seeing the pattern yet.